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Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years... read more
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Cast of Characters/Important People
- Rob Fleming: Protagonist, who runs a record shop and is obsessed with his record collection.
- Barry: Coworker and friend of Rob's.
- Dick: Coworker and friend of Rob's.
Memorable Quotes
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“We were twelve or thirteen, and had recently discovered irony--or at least, what I later understood to be irony: we only allowed ourselves to play on the swings and the round-about and the other kids' stuff rusting away in there if we could do it with a sort of self-conscious ironic detachment.”
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“We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five.”
Barry - Show all quotations from this book (warning: contains spoilers)
First Sentence
MY desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: 1. Alison Ashworth 2. Penny Hardwick 3. Jackie Allen 4. Charlie Nicholson 5. Sarah Kendrew.
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Authors & Contributors
- Nick Hornby (Author)
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